# Composition area

Christopher Unkel (cunkel@us.itd.umich.edu)
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:54:05 PDT

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    On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Chuck Mize wrote:

    > Greetings,
    >
    > Awhile back I was visiting different MOO sites and found a site that allowed
    > you to set an input mode where what the user was typing would not be
    > interupted by the noise in the room.  I thought this must have been a common
    > feature so I did not pay more attention to it.  Now on our educational MOO,
    > the main complaint we have is that comments being composed by one user are
    > constantly being interupted by other users comments.
    >
    > How can we set up the MOO so that when a user starts a comment or command,
    > other traffic will not interrupt their typing?  Any and all help is always
    > appreciated.

    You should use TinyFugue or some other MUD/MOO client, instead of plain
    old telnet -- they put the command you're typing in a different place than
    the output you get from the MOO, so it doesn't interfere with typing.

    It would be very difficult to make the MOO do this automatically; the
    server gets its input from the telnet connection in line-by-line, not
    character-by-character, mode, so the server doesn't get any indication
    that a command is being typed until the command is complete and enter
    pressed.

    You could, however, make a command that would suspend output to a player
    by having their :tell store input to them, rather than send it to their
    :notify; then a corresponding command would unsuspend output and send all
    th buffered data.

    Ultimately, TinyFugue and friends are the best solution, in my opinion.

      --Chris                           cunkel@engin.umich.edu
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